Hmmmmm - big, budget epic that is apparently being released right during the thick of Oscar week, when moviegoers tend to spend their money on seeing the films nominated for Oscars.....and then said film can be blamed for lack of box office not on it's suckiness, but on getting 'drowned out' by the Oscar flicks.

I think the Studio PTB have sent their 'review' on this just by it's scheduling.

I've seen Kit in two thingsGOT, in which he does an excellent job of portraying a guy completely overwhelmed by everything around him and comes of as awkward and wooden which works for Jon being thrust into the NW as a boy and the later adventures he is seasoned with.And Silent Hill, in which he does an excellent job of portraying a guy completely overwhelmed by everything around him and comes of as awkward and wooden which just contributed to the overall awfulness of the movie.Still, Gladiators AND a volcano? Can't fark that up.

I honestly don't understand this movie. At least with Titanic you have a long scene with the boat sinking where people can act in heroic/loving/cravenly ways.

What happens here? You get a backstory about some forbidden love and then a volcano erupts, killing everyone in seconds before they have time to react? I had thought ash suffocation did it, but checking Wikipedia it appears current theories is that the heat did them in instantly

I suppose you could have people arguing about warnings and portents, but in the end everything goes boom in seconds.

It would have been better, had they stuck with the plot of this series:

[images2.wikia.nocookie.net image 400x626]/hot//a damn fine book, to boot.///a pity what came of it.

There were so many Darkhorse comics they could've picked from to make a coherent (i.e. interesting) plot. Instead they went derp and ruined it for everyone.

Very much agreed. Darkhorse knew how to write those stories well. I mainly picked the first series because there were some specific points in the movie that was plucked from this series (I specifically recall the scene at the end when Broken Tusk marked the female lead with the Alien blood).

Glockenspiel Hero:I honestly don't understand this movie. At least with Titanic you have a long scene with the boat sinking where people can act in heroic/loving/cravenly ways.

What happens here? You get a backstory about some forbidden love and then a volcano erupts, killing everyone in seconds before they have time to react? I had thought ash suffocation did it, but checking Wikipedia it appears current theories is that the heat did them in instantly

I suppose you could have people arguing about warnings and portents, but in the end everything goes boom in seconds.

A lot of people either escaped or died slowly by suffocation or were buried alive. It wasn't nearly as quick as you seem to think. And hundreds of people escaped by ship at the last moment (or didn't escape and died by the docks). Rescue attempts and ships were immediately dispatched to help save people as soon as the volcano started erupting.

scottydoesntknow:It was well made, well coreographed, stayed true to the plot of the video game while taking some liberties to expand the mythos, and is widely regarded as one of the few successful adaptations.

I liked Postal too. So many people shiat on Uwe but Postal was true to the source and he has done two enjoyable movies now with Assault on Wall Street.

mjohnson71:If the hero outruns a pyrochlastic flow in a chariot, I'm flying to Los Angeles and punching someone in the face.

Maybe someone survives in a refrigerator.

It could be a seriously awesome movie if they paid attention to detail. Yes, there was a gladiator school in Pompeii and they all liked the freaky deaky sex Etruscean style. There was a pregnant woman found preserved as well. Lots of people lost time loading themselves up with gold and missed ships that came, although there weren't many of those, and they burned or drowned.